Finance Monthly CFO Awards 2019 Winners Edition

EVP & CFO of Cisco KELLY A. KRAMER ABOUT KELLY A. KRAMER Kelly Kramer is Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at Cisco, managing financial strategy, and overseeing all financial functions, corporate development, mergers, acquisitions, integrations and investor relations for the company with total revenue for fiscal year 2019 of $51.7 billion and more than 76,000 employees. Kramer is committed to maximizing long-term shareholder value, ensuring a balanced portfolio of growth initiatives, and maintaining the high level of integrity and transparency for which Cisco is known. Before being named CFO in 2015, Kramer was Senior Vice President of Business Technology and Operations Finance, partnering with the Development organization across business groups, segments, and operations on strategic long-range planning, budgeting, and forecasting new-offer development, as well as the analysis and strategy of product pricing. In addition, her organization managed finance for the company’s supply chain, marketing, corporate communications, operations, HR, and IT groups. Kramer joined Cisco in 2012 as Senior Vice President of Corporate Finance. Prior to Cisco, she was Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of GE Healthcare’s Healthcare Systems business. During her 20 years with General Electric, she held other CFO roles including CFO of GE Healthcare Biosciences, a division in Life Sciences and Molecular Diagnostics. She also worked in GE’s corporate headquarters, and Transportation Systems and Aerospace divisions. Kramer has extensive experience in financial planning and analysis, profit-and-loss leadership, and mergers and acquisitions. Kramer serves on the board of directors and chairs the Audit Committee for Gilead Sciences. She is also a member of the board of directors for the Silicon Valley Chapter of City Year. Kramer holds a bachelor of science degree in mathematics from Purdue University and received the Purdue University College of Science Distinguished Alumni award in 2017. FIRM PROFILE Cisco Systems, Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in San Jose, Cali- fornia. Cisco develops, manufactures and sells networking hardware, tel- ecommunications equipment and other high-technology services and products. Through its numerous acquired subsidiaries, Cisco specializes into specific tech markets, such as Internet of Things (IoT), domain security and energy management. Finance Monthly CFO Awards 2019 www.finance-monthly.com 26 Finance Monthly CFO Awards 2019 USA www.cisco.com